Michael Head

Head’s recent past is a redemptive story of as many tight bends and no fewer complicated turns for Head than the mazes he’s had to find ways through over the past four decades. It was a treacherously low ebb, facing the deadest of ends, from which Head could find a path to his defiant, love-filled present.

Dear Scott, his universally-acclaimed second album with The Red Elastic Band, released in 2022, arrived in the world alongside its bewildered author at a time of still precarious fragility. Even with new light tantalisingly within reach, and in the midst of a new wave of attention, perhaps adoration, Head was still in a self-preserving bubble. In his loophole.